The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-01-27
Special Correspondence.


sion Of the Dakota Legislature will not be
as quiet and harmonious as predicted
during the gathering of the solons in the
Capital. When the organization was ef-
fected it was evident to an that North
and Central Dakota had secured control
Of the council which is body of lawyers
and doctors, and that the farmer men,
bers had grasped the reins in the house.
The Council combination has thus far
renamed undistufbed, but the house is
to-day in state of warlike turmoil from
which it will not emerge until the combi-
nation is broken. The election to the
speakership of Mr.. Crosse, the large we'll
meaning German from Hyde county was
looked upon as an assurance of harmony
and perpetuation of the power of the
combination till the close of the session.
But this sweet illusien was dispel1ed yes
terday afternoon when the committees
were announced and Mr.. Hobart OF
Moody county who was promised the
Craftsmanship of the committee on rail-
roads, was given instead second and third
positions on minor and unimportant COM
mittees. Mr.. Roger, too. who was prom
ised the craftsmanship of the committee
on insurance and was shelved upon the
bric-a-brac of such committees as educa-
ton and military affairs. is quietly pre-
pairing to "get even" with a vengeance.
The firm and tenacious Sullivan, of Au-
rora county, is also mixing his war-paint
for having been ignored, and thus l
might 60 on and name over ten of the
members from the Southern counties
who are prepared to smash the house
combination into smithereens. No one
doubts Speaker Crose's honesty of pur-
pose, but his inexperience in legislative
matters led him into promises the fulfil
ment of which was impossible and he is
now. the most completely damned and
excoriated gentleman in the halls of the
legislature.
This means much. It means that the
combination of the house which wonld
have opposed the removal Of the United
States court from Yankton to Mitchell
has been broken. It means that the
house forces that were so arranged as to
put a check upon the council combina.
ton which with Mr.. Lawler of Mitchell
Eas it's leader would favor the removal Of
court, are now. stampeding toward the
council organization; and unless speake,
Crosse and his friends can do some excel
lent harmonizing during the next week
the southern farmer members will lose
their grip upon the house.
One fact worth mentioning, and fac
that elicits words of congratulation and
praise from a majority Of the gentlemen
in the lobby. is that the farmers are il
the ascendency and there is an almos
unanimous sentiment for legislation = ia
voring the producing classes as agains
the corporations.
vi COuISV NAA 1Ht " lCI VI NlICucll, 10 VII tuS
railroad committee in the council, and Mr.
Greene, superintendent Of the Northern
Pacific, IS on the committee in the house
but there is majority Of farmers on boil
committees and the recognition of thes'
gentlemen is not looked upon with alarm
Mr.. Lawler is banker, but his father il
the we'll known official Of the G. M. & st. P
road. He is creditable member of the up
per house and seems inclined to he fair
The farmers can excuse the appointment o
Lawler, but as they had control Of the hous
they are not quick, to overlook the appoint
ment of Mr.. Greene on the committee in tn
house. Judging from the organization, how
ever. I do not, think that in this Mr.. Cros
has committed any serious mistake.
Pres, Loucks, Of the farmers alliance, i
now in the city and in an interview will
him, / learn that the main objects O
farmers are briefly as follows: =,
1st. To increase the power Of the rail
road commissioners, giving them power t
fix the maximum rates Of freight to b
charged on ali lines and to give them con
| troll over all warehouses and elevators.
End. 70 SO frame . law that all elevate
or warehouse receipts shall be negotiabl
paper, and may be presented as such in an
town or city in the land as representing th
value Of the grain for which they are giver
Heretofore the option as to whether tn
grain stored should be returned or paid 70,
has been with the elevator companies, an
the farmers believe that il should be wit
| them. .3
3rd. 70 establish state inspector fo
the grading If grain under the superyisio
Of the railrpad commissioner.
Pres. Loucks will remain in the city du,
ing the sessioh and the horny handed yet
men Of the legislature have pleaged .hi'
their undivided support to secure the legi'
lation demanded BY the Alliance.
Ira S~Arx.